When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.

I'd rather die for speaking out, than to live and be silent.

Learn as if you were not reaching your goal and as though you were scared of missing it

Just as lavishness leads easily to presumption, so does frugality to meanness. But meanness is a far less serious fault than presumption.

To prefer it is better than to only know it. To delight in it is better than merely to prefer it.

When superiors are fond of showing their humanity, inferiors try to outstrip one another in their practice of it.

An inconvenience is an unrecognized opportunity.